by Jaime Zla­mal, Andy Cut­ting, and Steven Quis­tad — As one would ex­pect, cre­at­ing a func­tional hu­man body with 10 fin­gers and 10 toes from a sin­gle cell is a highly co­or­di­nated process of cell dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion. By com­par­i­son, the growth of a sin­gle rod-shaped bac­terium and its di­vi­sion into two cells would be ex­pected to be rel­a­tively sim­ple. A bac­te­r­ial cell…